Only a week ago, Gezi Park had been marked for demolition and the mass protest was a small sit-in with about 100 activists gathering to protest Erdogan's plan to replace the park with a shopping mall.

It started out as a small protest against plans by then prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to demolish Gezi Park -- a small green space next to Taksim Square.

Nationwide protests erupted May 31 after a violent police crackdown against peaceful activists staging an initial sit-in to protest government plans to rip down Gezi Park's trees and erect a ...

Osman Kavala, the respected Turkish human rights defender, has been behind bars in Istanbul’s Silivri high security jail for ...

Two weeks into nationwide anti-government protests, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan finally met with demonstrators’ representatives late on Thursday night in an apparent bid to ...

The Gezi Park Protests Ignited Resistance Against Turkish Police Brutality Vincent Bevins revisits the 2013 protests in this exclusive excerpt from his new book. Vincent Bevins October 13, 2023.

The Gezi Park protests were notable because they brought together a diverse mix of people, including Kurds, Kemalists, LGBTIQ, football fans, Alevi, women, who mobilized in the park, exchanging ...

ISTANBUL—Gezi Park, the leafy Istanbul spot that emerged at the center of mass demonstrations here a year ago, remains a symbol of antigovernment defiance as the one-year anniversary arrives on ...

“Gezi Park showed us the potential of protests,” he said. Authoritarian government Since then, the AK Party-led government has turned increasingly authoritarian, ...

Critics slammed what they called political targeting of another major city's leader, about 100 days after Istanbul's mayor ...

ISTANBUL -- Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannons on Monday at demonstrators who tried to defy a closure order and enter Istanbul’s Gezi Park – the epicenter of protests against ...